Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story

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$16.99

Anna was a girl who loved nature. But unfortunately a lot of schools didn’t do nature classes – they stayed inside. Anna decided she was going to write lots and lots of books about insects and animals and nature and plants. When she grew up, she decided to be a teacher. She traveled the country teaching in schools about the wilderness. She convinced a lot of schools to let their classes be outside. This was about a hundred years ago, when girls were not expected to go to college or study very much, but Anna went to college anyway to study nature and she became a scientist. She helped a lot of children learn to love nature like she did.

This book has a lot of interesting pictures that tell Anna’s story very well. People who like exploring and discovering nature will like this book as well, and what is really nice is that this is a true story. The pictures are very beautiful. The book has a good message that everyone should be able to learn about nature and that if you love something you can find a way to share that with everyone, like Anna did.

Chloe and her friend Leo were going to dress up like monsters from their favorite books. But Emma wanted to be fairies, and for Chloe to be a fairy. Now Chloe is thinking about something she wants – she wants to be a monster but her friend wants her to be a fairy. She made a monster coat, but she made fairy wings. The dog took her book, because Leo wanted to be a monster not a fairy, and Emma wouldn’t be a monster. So she turned out to be a monster and a fairy, she wanted to be a ballerina first, and a monster and a fairy, so now her friends were happy. I love the first picture; love it, love it, love it. The baby and the dog are so funny, and Chloe is upside down. I like Leo the best; he is nice. The baby is going to be a monster too. I like the picture of the mom and a bucket on the baby’s head and the dad was playing with the baby. But I would dress up like a fairy.

There are almost twenty short stories in this book. It is a very colorful graphic novel that is similar in looks to the Adventure Time graphic novels. I am not really sure what the stories are about. The title says “Shhhhhhh,” but it is so hard to tell where a story starts and where it ends and I had to keep looking at the table of contents. I was so confused while reading it and even read the books a couple of times. But who doesn’t like Uglydolls? They each have their own different look, special talent, and unique personality and that is probably what makes them so likable.

I haven’t read volume one and I am not sure if that makes a difference. Even though this was a very cute, colorful, and eye-catching graphic novel, I do not think I would buy this book brand new. It just didn’t have any story to it. I would suggest to people who want to read this book to check it out from the library or try and find it used.

This is Jesus baby, Jesus brother, and all the the animals are around him. There is the cat, and a dog, a sheep, a camel. They gave things to the baby Jesus. The donkey brought the mother before she had the baby. The cow gave some hay; he didn’t eat the hay he was sleeping in it. The sheep gave him his blanket. The camel brought the wise men who brought presents for the baby Jesus. The cat was there, and the dog wagged his tail, like my dog Portia would wag her tail too. The birds sang him to sleep. They were nice animals. I like the dog and cat the best. I like to be there with the baby Jesus. The pictures look soft and I would like to snuggle with them, with the animals. There are six little kittens that like to play there, too. This is my book.

When I read the title I knew that this book would be about parrots in Puerto Rico. The book tells about how their number was getting smaller and smaller. I learned things like “In the 1950s, birds called pearly-eyed thrashers moved into the rainforest and tried to steal the parrots’ nesting holes.” The characters in this book are the parrots and the scientists who try to help and save them. Some of the parrots do get saved! Looking at some of the illustrations made me feel sorry for the parrots. The pictures are very bright and beautiful. The pictures are made like collages of different colored paper and fabric so I like looking at them. My favorite part of this book is when the scientists figured out how to save the parrots. “People had nearly caused the parrots to become extinct. Now people started to help the parrots stay alive.” I think that big kids would especially like this book Parrots Over Puerto Rico. This book has lots and lots of good and interesting facts about…parrots!

This book is about a girl and she went to her pets’ cages to feed them. Then she saw they weren’t there, so she looked all around the house, but couldn’t find them. Then she looked outside and she saw them all floating away on balloons! Then she climbed up the tree and tried to catch her pets, but couldn’t. She said, “Mother, my pets are floating away on balloons!” and her mother said, “You have to remember that when things float away, they will always be there in the sky.” She tried to throw a rock at them to pop the balloons, and she also tried floating up to them with her own balloons, but those things didn’t work. Finally she went outside and she saw her dog’s face in the tree, and the sun was her cat’s face, and the bird was in the cloud. And some stars made her fish’s shape. Then she was able to remember her pets and be happy, even though she was still a little bit sad.

I thought this book was a little sad, but I like it that the pets were in the sky so she could always remember them. I liked the pictures in this book too.